"I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways."

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Source : "Q&A: John Elkington". Interview with Jessie Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November 2008.

John Elkington

#Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes #Play Quotes

“There are so many responsible, nice, kind guys out there. Why marry a fixer-upper?”
“Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.”
“No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.”
“Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.”
“Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.”
“Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.”
“It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.”
“Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life”

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